Yearbook OCR: How Schools Turn Scanned Yearbooks Into a Searchable Digital Archive
Yearbook OCR — optical character recognition applied to scanned yearbook pages — is the technology that converts printed names, captions, and text into machine-readable, searchable data. When a school scans its physical yearbooks and runs OCR, a collection that once required someone to flip through every page by hand becomes a digital archive where any name, activity, or year can be found in seconds.
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